Hi I have a work laptop (which docks) and a personal laptop. I've read that
with the license you are allowed to use a desktop and a portable. Would that
include two laptops? Also, I loaded the trial version on my personal laptop
and tried to use the key from the one on my work computer (the active version
I bought) and it won't take it.....how do I get One Note to work on both??

smkatt wrote:

> Hi I have a work laptop (which docks) and a personal laptop. I've
> read that with the license you are allowed to use a desktop and a
> portable. Would that include two laptops?

I don't think that this would be against the rules (as long as ON is not
used on a desktop computer in addition).
This would be different if you'd use the "Home & Student" version which
allows for installing on 3 computers.

> Also, I loaded the trial version on my personal laptop and tried to
> use the key from the one on my work computer (the active version I
> bought) and it won't take it.....how do I get One Note to work on
both??

AFAICS there are different codes for the trial versions.
Try to install from the CD your computer at work was installed with.

Rainald

On Sat, 16 May 2009 22:59:29 +0200, "Rainald Taesler" <taesler@gmx.de>
wrote:

>> Also, I loaded the trial version on my personal laptop and tried to
>> use the key from the one on my work computer (the active version I
>> bought) and it won't take it.....how do I get One Note to work on
>both??
>
>AFAICS there are different codes for the trial versions.
>Try to install from the CD your computer at work was installed with.

I would also recommend first uninstalling the trial version before
installing from the CD.

//Steve//

Steve Silverwood wrote:

> On Sat, 16 May 2009 22:59:29 +0200, "Rainald Taesler" <taesler@gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
>>> Also, I loaded the trial version on my personal laptop and tried to
>>> use the key from the one on my work computer (the active version I
>>> bought) and it won't take it.....how do I get One Note to work on
>>> both??
>>
>> AFAICS there are different codes for the trial versions.
>> Try to install from the CD your computer at work was installed with.
>
> I would also recommend first uninstalling the trial version before
> installing from the CD.

Why?
The trial version is full version with no restrictions and normally
entering a valid key is all one needs to do.

Rainald

On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:19:39 +0200, "Rainald Taesler" <taesler@gmx.de>
wrote:

>Steve Silverwood wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 16 May 2009 22:59:29 +0200, "Rainald Taesler" <taesler@gmx.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Also, I loaded the trial version on my personal laptop and tried to
>>>> use the key from the one on my work computer (the active version I
>>>> bought) and it won't take it.....how do I get One Note to work on
>>>> both??
>>>
>>> AFAICS there are different codes for the trial versions.
>>> Try to install from the CD your computer at work was installed with.
>>
>> I would also recommend first uninstalling the trial version before
>> installing from the CD.
>
>Why?
>The trial version is full version with no restrictions and normally
>entering a valid key is all one needs to do.

I've found in the past that =sometimes= the trial version won't accept
the key from a store-purchased system. Why this is so, I don't know,
as it has only happened occasionally. But I've seen it happen so
whenever someone goes from a downloaded trial version to a
commercially-purchased product, I always recommend an uninstall and
then reinstall from the purchased CD or DVD. No loss of data, and it
avoids headaches down the road.

//Steve//